Originally Posted by
FearlessFern
Can you elaborate about what you mean by, "overrun like Phuket (and without the nastiness of Pattaya)."?
Phuket is possibly the most crowded place in Thailand outside Bangkok. It's overbuilt and doesn't have the infrastructure to support the number of tourists who go there each year. Plus, the tuk-tuk mafia.
Pattaya is the sex tourism capitol of Thailand.